 MIT Creates New Material For Fuel Cells, Increases Power Output By 50 Percent May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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MIT engineers have improved the power output of one type of fuel cell by more than 50 percent through technology that could help these environmentally friendly energy storage devices find a much broader market, ... | |
Disorder Enables Extreme Sensitivity in Piezoelectric Materials May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A research team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has found an explanation for the extreme sensitivity to mechanical pressure or voltage of a special class of solid materials called relaxors. The ... | |
 Possible Mechanism for Enormous Electromechanical Response May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators at Stony Brook University, Johns Hopkins University, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have ... | |
Modern ceramics help advance technology May 08, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Many important electronic devices used by people today would be impossible without the use of ceramics. A new study published in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society illustrates the use of ceramic materials ... | |
 Engineers 'bone' up on biological materials May 07, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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In a recent feature article published in Materials Research Society's Bulletin, Dr Michelle Oyen explores the potential uses of synthetic bone-like material. Michelle suggests that these materials will ... | |
New 3-D Test Method for Biomaterials 'Flat Out' Faster April 29, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
A novel, three-dimensional (3-D) screening method for analyzing interactions between cells and new biomaterials could cut initial search times by more than half, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology ... | |
 Can a Polymer Help Curb Arctic Ice Melting? April 29, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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In order to help prevent the melting of Arctic ice, a process that has been occurring at alarming rates in recent years, which many scientists believe is due gradual global warming, a group of researchers ... | |
 Ceramic, heal thyself April 17, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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A new computer simulation has revealed a self-healing behavior in a common ceramic that may lead to development of radiation-resistant materials for nuclear power plants and waste storage. | |
Self-repairing materials April 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Will the day come when cracks in buildings close up without external help and before they get to the stage where they cause damage to the component? This might appear utopia, but it already occurs in nature. When a person ... | |
 From cartilage to fruit-fly wings, physicist studies 'squishiness' in everyday things April 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Cartilage is essential to movement in the human body, cushioning bones and joints, while retaining its shape despite a lot of pressure, poking and prodding. Unfortunately, it also often starts breaking down ... | |
 Atomic-Level Mechanisms of Phase-Change Memory Materials Revealed April 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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Scientists from the University of Cambridge in the UK have uncovered the atomic-level interactions that occur when a class of “phase-change” memory materials stores information. Their work, reported in the ... | |
 Newly discovered 'superinsulators' promise to transform materials research, electronics design April 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 58 vote(s)
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Superinsulation may sound like a marketing gimmick for a drafty attic or winter coat. But it is actually a newly discovered fundamental state of matter created by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's ... | |
Hybrid computer materials may lead to faster, cheaper technology April 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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A modern computer contains two different types of components: magnetic components, which perform memory functions, and semiconductor components, which perform logic operations. A University of Missouri researcher, as part ... | |
 More Solid than Solid: A Potential Hydrogen-Storage Compound April 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 80 vote(s)
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One of the key engineering challenges to building a clean, efficient, hydrogen-powered car is how to design the fuel tank. Storing enough raw hydrogen for a reasonable driving range would require either impractically ... | |
An Invisible Cloak for Magnetism March 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 78 vote(s)
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The subject of metamaterials is mad science at its finest – researchers trying to create materials with properties that don’t exist in nature, and that cannot be made with ordinary atoms. | |
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